RISC-V inferior to ARMv8

Travis Downs (travis.downs.delete@this.gmail.com) on December 20, 2018 2:18 pm wrote:
> I largely agree on ISA design - it's too simple for its own good when it
> comes to high-perf designs, but I think it all mostly doesn't matter.
>
> If RISC-V succeeds, it will be because it is free, both in $ terms
> and in the ability to use the designs and ISA royalty free.
>
> Price matters most at the ultra low-end of the market where speeds are usually measured in the single
> to triple-digit MHz. The mentioned differences might make 10% to 50% difference in performance,
> but these low-end designs already range by a factor of 10x in performance fairly easily.
>
> At this very low end the simplicity probably helps overall, even if it hurts performance.

Recent non-academic RISC-V cores as Maxion have performance similar to Cortex-A72 cores. And I find no reason why more powerful cores couldn't be released in future.